If you don't have the experience, and, perhaps, only listen to "hearsay", then your opinion can become "somewhat fuzzy" - maybe not even correct !

Like Ysarex I've been a mirrorless user for more years than many on this forum - happily used to use a Nikon D700, have used Fuji X-Series, still do, and now added Nikon Z in the last month. I'm simply an enthusiast-cum-hobbyist, but now, and for my reasons, am totally mirrorless. I'm also in a different country, but that shouldn't make any difference.

Here's a couple of "low light" shots taken 3 months ago with Fuji X-T2 (now 2 generations behind the latest Fuji tech) - only light is the candle - camera has an APS-C sensor, not full frame - so tell me please "does my mirrorless camera really not do well in low light ?"

#1 : X-T2 with 35mm XF f1.4 lens - 1/80 sec, f1.4, ISO 500
#2 : X-T2, same lens - 1/100 sec, f1.4, ISO 800

To the "you'll never get me into a mirrorless camera" brigade - fine. Your choice. Be happy. Stay happy.
Some of us have "made the leap to mirrorless", and long ago, our choice. Guess what - we're content too !
Peaceful co-existence !

We keep hearing the hubadubs that DSLR is dead. Maybe it is time to look beyond the news and advertisements.

Manufacturers want sales. That is what all this noise is about. Everyday we encounter advertisements and press release all pointed to that direction - sales.

It's always a miracle product that will bring heaven to earth and to hell and back being shoved up all our senses and body openings. All for sales.

It doesn't matter to them if we need it or not. They will lie and hustle the green out of our hands.

So why listen? Why do we believe the press releases and the ads? Why not have a look beyond?
Stand on your own and Have a different view.

Here is my own. Warning, its not mainstream and may touch some egos and probably hate. But this is just me talking out loud, speaking my own.

DSLR is dead!!!

Well maybe that is what they wanted. All the hype and misdirection pushes the mirrorless wonder product so far ahead of the DSLR that it is obsolete- so they say.
Be truthful. Is it? When you bought that mirrorless, did your photography improved by 10 folds? 100? 1000 times better? Or were you just conned out to get the latest gear?

Manufacturers are always looking to produce with the least cost and sell at the highest price. If mirrorless is sold with the same "cost to sales" premium, it will cost about 3/4 or at extremes 1/2 the price of an equivalent DSLR. Why? Because mechanical parts, materials like magnesium bodies and actual assembly of such, cost more. Electronics, molded plastics and smaller amount(size) cost much less.

Imagine a single button on a Toyota. What if that button cost dollar? If i produce 1 million cars, that is an extra 1 million dollars of investment. Meaning if i design something without buttons, I save millions. Suddenly touch screens makes a lot of sense!

A mirrorless is basically a dumbed down video camera. They made it look like a DSLR so it can take its place. Instead of shooting video they made it shoot slower, then advertise that their camera shoots 20 frames per second!!! Faster than your DSLR!!! Yea right...

So it shoots 10 - 20 - 25 frames a second, how many are in focus? 50%? 25%? 1 image?

The technology of the mirrorless has been around since the invention of the tv and are just getting repurposed. Innovation as some would say. It is not new, that is just hype. Don't buy into it.

Am I against mirrorless? Nope, not at all. But let us see things the way they really are. Cut the bull, forget the advertisement and hype. If it fits your style and improves your photography, then by all means buy as much as you can. Help the manufacturer so they can go back to making better cameras.

But if you are buying just for the hype, you are feeding the money train instead of supporting the production of better equipment.

Ask yourself, If they can put 4 cameras in a celphone and sell it for half the price of a mirrorless, what did you miss? Have you just been robbed?

Wide angle lenses on DSLRs are performance compromised by being forced farther away from the sensor in order to provide room for the mirror. This is common knowledge. Here's a wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angénieux_retrofocus and a paragraph from the article: "In still photography, a single-lens reflex camera requires a space for the reflex mirror, imposing a limit on the use of wide-angle lenses of symmetric designs. The retrofocus lens addressed this situation by increasing the distance between the rear element and the focal plane, thus making wider-angle lenses usable while retaining normal viewing and focusing. Unless the reflex mirror were locked in the "up" position, blacking out the viewfinder, the rearmost element(s) of a non-retrofocus (symmetric wide-angle) lens would interfere with the movement of the mirror as it flipped up and down during exposure."

Marketing is a factor in the camera business as in the car industry. We buy the shiny new object even if we don't need it. People with deep pockets buy a Ferrari that can go 200 mph even though there is no road in the US that will allow it to legally go faster than 80 mph. Why? Because they can. Amateur photographers buy Professional level cameras and lenses to take photos of their grandkids or their vacation trips. Why? Because they can.

When digital photography began, the cameras and photos were no where as good as the film versions. DSLRs have improved greatly over time. Most point and shoot cameras were and are mirrorless. The point and shoot camera market was killed by the iphone. Most camera manufacturers are now making mirrorless cameras that exceed the capabilities of their DSLRs. The camera market depends on progress. If they do not come up with new and improved units, they will go out of business.

I own an Iphone 12 Promax. When I take photos of my grandkids and travel (after Covid) this is what I reach for. Every year, the digital phone cameras get better and better. Camera manufacturers only change their cameras every 3 or 4 years. At this rate, it does not look good for the camera business.

I look at the camera as a tool like a hammer. In the hands of an expert, the tool can produce wonderful things.